Day 7/30 a song that reminds you of a certain event…

The Paddingtons: Shame about Elle.

Smile for the nice man,

smile for the camera,

smile for the nice man,

wont you do it again

Taken at Hull Freedom concert 2009. The Paddingtons performing to a crowd of 20,000 local fans.

The song reminds me of the very 1st open air concert that I ever photographed. It was also the 1st time I had heard the Paddingtons perform live. They did a fantastic set, which ended in a mic stand thrown in my direction and the guitarist been dragged off stage by other band members

Day 5/30 Song that reminds you of someone…

House of Pain: Jump around.

While going through my music collection I had several songs that reminded me of different people. My favourite is Jump around by House of Pain. This fits with my life at the moment because if I did jump I would be in a world of pain, due to the surgery I had done on my ankle.

 
The reason the song reminds me of two of my friends is it was playing on the radio when we where driving back from Robin Hoods Bay. We had spent all day driving two Toyota Hi-lux pick-ups off road. The best part of the day was driving over a five foot high sew-saw. Glad to say that I am still good friends with both of them.

This was shot was taken at one of the motocross events I photographed on 35mm in the early nineties. Here’s Jase and Nige.

January 2011 in Photos

First month of the 365 day project year two is now completed. Looking at the gallery all I think I do is eat and work. Photography wise is been a bit of a slow month. I did get to shoot in an actual recording studio and here a few tracks been laid down for a charity disc. There will be a blog to follow.

Testing out a new function I found to embed flickr slideshows. Here is the link.

Keyingham a village under snow.

My car has been stuck on the drive the last couple of days due to the snow. Luckily it was on the drive and not under the car port. This is now in pieces on my drive. I think the the foot of snow that fell overnight had not helped. Every one of the steel beams had bent under the weight. As it fell it has pulled off several pieces of guttering, this has lead to the formation of large icicles over our front door.
So I decided to have a wander around my village of Keyingham to see how the snow had changed things. It was nice to see people pulling as a community and clearing snow from each others drives and paths.

Lisa's eye AKA "The Wife"

Lisa's eye catchlight, originally uploaded by Graham Warsap.

Atempted to get a good catch light with my wife doing the modeling. The darks shadow is me. Almost a self portrait.

Helter Skelter HDR

Helter Skelter HDR, originally uploaded by Graham Warsap.

The first photo that I every got on to Flickr explore.

Taken at Hull Fair just before sunset. 3 exposures edited in Photomatix.

Mono Mirror

IMG_2514, originally uploaded by Graham Warsap.

Taken at Fort Paull American car show. Changed to black and white with lightroom.

Missed this years show, but will be back next year.

Humber Bridge

Humber Bridge HDR 2 *explored*, originally uploaded by Graham Warsap.

The underside of the Humber bridge. When it 1st open it the worlds longest single span suspension bridge. Yorkshire and Lincolnshires own congestion charge. If the charge was scraped it would help local business work between the two sides of the river.

Swine Church

Swine Church HDR4, originally uploaded by Graham Warsap.

Need to get out and get some more new shoots. Until then another HDR shot. Taken at Swine church, East Yorkshire.
Have a wedding book here next April. Nice peaceful village. Might have a trip up there again in the near future.

Spurn Point

Spurn Point-15 HDR, originally uploaded by Graham Warsap.

Spurn Point, East Yorkshire. Taken at sunrise.

While setting up the shot my wife rang me. Called me an idiot for getting out of bed so early.

Post process done in Photomatix HDR 3exp

Fuscia

Fuscia, originally uploaded by Graham Warsap.

Taken last year in my Dads garden. Always has a good show of fuscias and other plants. Used the coffeeshop.com action for rounding corners and a vintage action to give a faded photo look.

Tescos Trolly Selective Colour

Tescos Trolly Selective Colour, originally uploaded by Graham Warsap.

Another old shot. Taken at St Stephens in Hull. Used photoshop for selective colour/mono effect.